Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential five-year, $3.6 billion contract to develop, test and integrate an airborne communications relay system for the U.S. Air Force. The company will also help the service branch operate and maintain payloads and ground stations of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, the Department of Defense...
President Joe Biden has ordered federal agencies to work with the government’s COVID-19 response coordinator in efforts to collect, publish and share pandemic-related data and address disinformation or misinformation campaigns regarding the public health crisis. The executive order calls for the modernization of infrastructure that can support...
Jeff Owen, formerly a managing director at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), has joined technical consulting firm Steampunk as vice president of operations, according to a LinkedIn post Saturday. Owen brings more than two decades of experience in areas such as digital transformation, internet of things implementation, network planning and supply chain business...
Congress has approved a waiver to facilitate the confirmation of Lloyd Austin, a retired U.S. Army general, as defense secretary under the administration of President Joe Biden, Defense News reported Thursday. The House voted 326-78 and the Senate passed in a 69-27 vote a congressional waiver that would exempt Austin from a law that requires...
Kim Koster, vice president of GovCon Strategy at Unanet, co-author of the 2020 GAUGE Report and GovCon Expert, has published her latest article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday. In her most recent article, GovCon Expert Kim Koster shared her insight into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the influenc...
Jerry McGinn, executive director of George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting, said he believes that reshoring production activities back to the U.S. will serve as the biggest challenge President Joe Biden must address. McGinn told Government Matters in an interview aired Tuesday that the incoming administration must work to iden...
The U.S. Navy is looking for potential sources of data analytics and business intelligence services in support of teams that help manage the center’s product and department-level operations. Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic said in a notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov that the Management and Business Analytical Systems II contract covers a ...
Ellen Purdy, director of emerging capabilities, prototyping initiatives and analysis at the Department of Defense, will be featured as a keynote speaker during Potomac Officers Club’s Achieving Spectrum Dominance in the Digital Battlespace Virtual Event on Jan. 26. As the future of warfare becomes increasingly reliant on information and digital ta...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) will maintain and repair elevator support units aboard the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers under a five-year, $174.9M contract. The Navy awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive solicitation and will obligate funding at the ...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would require government agencies to review security risks associated with unmanned aircraft systems from foreign adversaries and remove from the federal fleet such drones. The order directs all federal agencies to submit a report to the Director of National Intelligence and head of the Offic...
